Question reference: S1W-00914
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 12 August 1999
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Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 3 September 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it plans to encourage the availability of park and ride initiatives.
Answer
The Government's Preliminary Guidance on Local Transport Strategies encouraged local authorities to set out their plans for park and ride in their interim strategies which were due to be submitted in July 1999. The Scottish Executive's Public Transport Fund encourages local authorities to develop projects promoting the use of public transport such as the establishment of park and ride sites and associated bus priority measures. In the first round of the Fund, 3 projects involving new park and ride sites were successful in securing additional capital allocations. Applications to the second round of the Fund are currently being considered.